Black Earth Rising
LegalCourtrooms, lawyers and the machinery of the law.This show: 8/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 8/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10Political intriguePower struggles inside governments and institutions.This show: 7/10Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 7/10Social commentaryDeliberate critique of how society works.This show: 7/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 7/10
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Starring
John GoodmanMichaela CoelDywayne ThomasNoma DumezweniLucian MsamatiTyrone Huggins
Starring
John GoodmanMichaela CoelDywayne ThomasNoma DumezweniLucian MsamatiTyrone Huggins
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Black Earth Rising Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 7.7 |
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About
"A genocide survivor confronts a legacy no one asked for"
A young woman rescued as a child from the Rwandan genocide and raised in Britain works alongside a war-crimes prosecutor, only to find a new case dragging her straight back into the unresolved horrors of her own past. It's a dense, slow-burn legal and political thriller that trades courtroom fireworks for moral complexity, jumping between London and Central Africa. The pace is deliberate and talky, carried by a quietly devastating lead performance and a script unafraid of ambiguity, guilt, and complicity on all sides.
Watch it for
a devastating lead performance anchoring a morally tangled international war-crimes story.
Maybe skip if
you want fast pacing over long, dialogue-heavy scenes about justice and complicity.
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Miniseries2018
7.62K87h 48m
Rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide as a child, Kate was adopted and brought up in Britain by Eve Ashby, a world-class international lawyer. Kate has long struggled to escape the shadow of her past, but is now returning to work as a legal investigator in the same chambers as Eve, under leading international lawyer Michael Ennis. Kate and Eve's relationship is strained to breaking point when a controversial militia leader, who had once fought to stop the genocide, is captured in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Eve takes on his prosecution at the International Criminal Court.
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | In Other News | 7.3 | 257 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Looking at the Past | 8.0 | 222 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | A Ghost in Name | 7.8 | 201 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | A Bowl of Cornflakes | 7.3 | 188 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | The Eyes of the Devil | 7.4 | 181 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | The Game's True Nature | 7.5 | 164 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | Double Bogey on the Ninth | 7.7 | 163 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | The Forgiving Earth | 7.7 | 166 | 59 min |
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
John Goodman Michael Ennis
Michaela Coel Kate Ashby
Dywayne Thomas Immigration Officer
Noma Dumezweni Alice Munezero
Lucian Msamati David Runihura
Tyrone Huggins Patrice Ganimana
Tamara Tunie Eunice Clayton
Nicholas Beveney Nkanza a Nkanga
Treva Etienne Frank Munezero
Malou Coindreau Hana Ennis
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